Which is quite the shame. Given that is what people are doing, AKA carrying salary at their salary 'cap,' it really sucks to have one of the smaller arenas. Since I cant spend as much money as others, it is harder for me to stay competitive, thus have to max out my own salary cap, which again, is lower than others. That leaves literally no money to upgrade my arena such that I can then expand my salary, and have a more competitive roster.
Feel like I'll be stuck in this cycle until I inevitably demote, as there is no real way out of it without a lot of breaks. I'll kill myself and my funds each season to stay here, and just have to repeat the process year after year until I truly do have no money.
I'm not a fan of that either. But you can still be competitive without resorting to it. My top 8 make only
$652k... (for reference, there's a team at
$869k!). King Drive is there with me in that lower tier of spending too & doing just fine. Even before your last pickup, you had enough salary to be competitive IMO. ($35k or so more than me IIRC?)
However if you truly feel that things really are that dire for your team... wouldn't the smart thing to do be completely tanking next season?
Not that I think you should. Just the way you paint your future, you pretty much say you're intent on bankrupting your team for nothing basically. *And* in doing so are severely hampering any chance of quickly promoting back up... (Not sure why you'd rather kill yourself & your funds vs. re-promoting free from your cycle.)